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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will have read about Pop, the Swedish two-and-a-half-year-old whose gender the parents are refusing to reveal. Pop is given a range of toys from which to chose to play, dressed in a variety of outfits both masculine and feminine, and always called Pop, personal pronouns being avoided. Pop&#8217;s parents have made the decision to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waxcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8800814&amp;post=36&amp;subd=waxcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the modern classroom children are not afraid of the teacher. They do not behave under threat of a visit to the headmaster’s office, or share underpants and compare welts from their last meeting with the cane (a school-boy’s tale I was told more than a few times around the dining room table growing up). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waxcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8800814&amp;post=31&amp;subd=waxcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet reformation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I attended a consultation conference on curriculum reform. Most teachers will have heard the latest buzz words around the “creative curriculum”, “learning outside the classroom” and so forth by now. The problem facing education at the moment is that everything is evolving far too quickly. If we teach children ICT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waxcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8800814&amp;post=26&amp;subd=waxcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview with the Guardian on the subject of creativity in the classroom, Anthony Browne, the new children’s laureate, describes a trip to a primary school. He expresses concern that the children at this particular school seem to be confined in their freestyle drawing to prescriptive shapes. He raises alarm at the lack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waxcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8800814&amp;post=22&amp;subd=waxcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  There is no doubt that picture books are magical. Some – The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are, for example – transcend time and language to become part of a greater consciousness. Others, such as the utterly modern (and adorable) Charlie and Lola books, are very much of their time. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waxcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8800814&amp;post=5&amp;subd=waxcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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